>>58819130Unironically agree with this.
DS onwards is when the series started stagnating like crazy, but most zoomers on this board were too young to know that.
DPPt was not a meaningful jump from RSE, which was a gen that was already falling into a lull. The expectation at the time was 3D with fully animated battle scenes, somewhat akin to Stadium, and yet it wasnt.
BW was closer to what it DPPt "should" have been, but coming at the ass end of the consoles lifespan it pinned Gamefreak into being the developer that was perpetually behind the times. Gameplay quality and improvements also came at a sluggish pace. This trend continued going into SwSh.
Switch generation actually changed shit up. Stumbled a lot in doing so, but PLA, SV, PLZA, have all pushed the series forward far and away more than the DS or 3DS generations did. Biggest fuck up was SwSh, which was effectively just SM/USUM but less.
